Best (and worst) of AI11

Best (and worst) of AI11

Since the season is almost over, I felt like creating this thread to discuss the craziest moments of this season. Whether it be performances, random moments or stupid shit that occured at any point this season.

My top moments:

Steven Tyler ripping Heejun

"He-Man... I’m a little tongue-tied, are you happy that you took the piss out of that song? That's something the music industry is gonna kick your ass for..."

Jessica getting her mic snatched by JHO

Heejun Hollywood Week remarks

"I'm sweating water."

"Well we started off really rough, Phillip had a kidney stone, and cowboy had a brain stone, I don't know what's going on with him."

"All my friends that watch, they're gonna laugh at me because of this cowboy."

Women taking over in deeper rounds (or Sausage Fest 2012 CANCELLED)

The top 6 consisted of four women, and to a lesser extent, it was the first year (excluding last year's top 11) in four seasons where five females cracked the top 10.

Elise making the finals

This one was a moment for me, considering I thought she was meant to be semifinal fodder based off of Hollywood Week screentime. Even better how she managed to slay favorites like Jen Hirsh, Shannon, Heejun, Jessica and Colton en route to the top 6.

TOP 10 PERFORMANCES (IMO)

1. Joshua: It's a Man's World

2. Elise: Whole Lotta Love

3: Jessica: I Am Telling You (I Am Not Going)

4: Phillip: Volcano

5: Hollie: Bleeding Love

6: Joshua: When a Man Loves a Woman

7: Elise: Vienna

8: Skylar: Where Do Broken Hearts Go (very underrated)

9: Elise: Bold as Love

10: Colton: Love The Way You Lie

There were other performances that were pretty great too, but these 10 were probably the most exciting for me.

There were lots of trainwreck moments too, but they are too long to list (as usual) so I'll leave them for you guys to say. Any other thoughts on other performances, robbed contestants, stupid comments from alumni, past AI contestant performances etc. that you guys thought were significant feel free to mention as well.

Joshua had a few other good performances that blend together--She’s Got A Way, A Change Gonna Come, Imagine. I’m just not into that style, but he was good at it, I guess.

Worst

1. Colton - Bad Romance
2. Colton - Time After Time
3. Elise - I Want to Know What Love Is
4. Hollie - Perfect
5. Skylar - The Show Must Go On
6. Joshua - You Raise Me Up
7. Colton & Skylar - Don’t You Wanna Stay
8. Elise - You and I
9. Anything by Phillip other than "Volcano"--blends together
10. Anything else by Colton or DeAndre

HeeJun and Phillip's Bromance was the best part of the season. I liked PP wearing gray on gray after Tommy's advice not to wear it.

Worst - even though he wasn't the best singer (that has never been an issue on someone staying or winning AI) - HeeJun leaving soooo early. He actually added a bit of personality to the show.

Performances?? I will have to come back to that. Even though I liked several - not ONE by any of the performers are sticking out in my mind. Actually this was an odd season for me, I didn't really dislike any of the contestants, or if I did I have already forgotten them.

Best Moments:
Colton leaving the week after Jessica was saved. Pissing off the frauen that wanted her out. (I looked at my twitter timeline, a lot of girls were pissed that she was saved)
Heejun faking everyone out during Billy Joel week

Worst Moments:
pushing the final 4 results to the last part of the show
Phillip never seeing the bottom

Best Performances
Erika- Edge of Glory
Jessica- I'll always Love you
Elise- Whole Lotta Love
Colton- I Love The Way You Lie

Best Moment - Colton getting voted off. That was as great a shock boot as I've ever seen, and I remember cheering like the Giants won the Super Bowl when Constantine got knocked off.

2. After being in the green on Dial Idol, Skylar gets booted. If she couldn't find a country song, she would countrify it and then shout it out like she was at a pig holler contest. It was so awful I just started skipping her performances.

3. HeeJun's cover of My Life and Steven's totally pissed off reaction.

Worst moment - Standing ovations. All of them.

2. Saving Jessica. Would have been an awesome shock boot. I hate The Save.

Almost Best Moment - Hollie almost making it to the top three. That would have been epic.

Actually, I thought this was the best possible top 13 out of the whole top 25. And I had some serious doubts before the semis. But hey, to each their own.

I think this format of determining the final group is the most accurate, it avoids major upsets (on a Lilly/Alex Lambert level), and somehow the best performances from this semifinal round have a better than 95% chance of getting voted through, and the popular vote is not very effective (otherwise Eben would have gotten voted through). Yes there have been minor upsets like Reed, Haley Johnson, Lauren Turner, Kendra Chantelle, etc. but not on a monumental level.

Then again, that's based off of the only 2 seasons with this format, so who knows I might be totally wrong and we'll have the worst final group ever next year.